Star Richmond key forward Jack Riewoldt was always going to be rewarded with the maximum 10 votes in the AFL Coaches’ Association’s Player of the Year Round 21 voting for his outstanding 10-goal performance against Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium last Saturday.

Exciting, young Richmond small forward Daniel Rioli has made impressive progress since his delayed start to the season while recovering from the broken foot he sustained in the 2017 Grand Final triumph over Adelaide.

You have to go back 73 years for the last time a Richmond player had more scoring shots than star key forward Jack Riewoldt did with his total of 10.6 in yesterday’s 74-point win against Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium.

With Richmond taking on Gold Coast at Metricon Stadium on Saturday, Tony Greenberg cranks up the Tiger Time Machine and travels back to the ground formerly known as Carrara for the opening round of the 1990 season, when Brendon Gale made his senior debut in the famous Yellow and Black.

A former member of the Australian junior softball team, Ella Ross spent 16 years aspiring to compete in softball at the Olympics. But her lifelong dream came to a standstill, and Australian rules football became her focus, Grace Kalac explains.